The System Reserved Partition or EFI System Partition on your hard drive is a tiny sector Windows uses to house system files such as the Boot Configuration Database, Boot Manager Code, and Windows ...

While creating a system image on Windows 11/10 PC, if you get Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition error, here is how to fix it. As there are certain conditions ...

In the world of the Windows OS, BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. This critical information in the Windows runtime environment tells the Windows boot loader where to look for boot information.

Digging into event viewer revealed that Device\HardDisk0\DR0 was throwing a bad block error, which i think is the first partition which is the EFI partition. Took the disk out and connected it to ...

My system has several disks, one of which had a Linux installation and an EFI partition. I then installed Windows 10 onto a different disk; and retired the Linux partition (for Reasons ™). Unbeknownst ...